Lacing-stud



(No Model.)

G. H. PRATT.

LACING STUD.

No. 600,563 Patented Mar. 15,1898.

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STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES HENRY PRATT, OF HELENA, MONTANA.

LACING-STUD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,553, dated March 15, 1898. Application filed December 4, 1896- Serial No. 614,451. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HENRY PRATT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Helena, county of Lewis and Clarke, State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lacing-Studs, of which the following is a specification.

Great improvements have been made in lacing-studs and in lace-fasteners, but no cheap article has yet been devised which combines the two. My invention supplies such an article and is quickly, easily, and cheaply made.

It consists of a base, standard, disk, and two tongues, all of which can be stamped out of one piece of flat metal.

Figure 1 shows a plan view stamped but not bent to place. Fig. 2 shows a plan view after bending. Fig. 3 shows a side elevation.

Fig. 4 shows a side elevation in section with a variation. Fig. 5 shows a shoe front with fasteners and lace in place.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the drawings.

A is the base, perforated with the eyelet a.

B is the disk, which is supported on the short standard 0.

D D are the tongues, having their free ends projecting a little beyond the standard 0 and being bent upward to a plane at a slight angle to the base A, bringing their free ends above the plane of the base A and being twisted laterally, so that the inner edge is raised to an angle of about forty-five degrees to the base A.

E is the lacing.

F is the material to which the stud is attached.

a a are fastening-prongs which may be used instead of the eyelet a.

The rim of the disk 13 is rounded to prevent wearing the lacing, as are also the upper edges of the tongues D D.

The method of operation is very simple. The lacing E is drawn under the disk B back to the standard 0. The standard 0 is short, so as to make the lacing E fit snugly between the disk B and the base A. As the lacing E is drawn back to the standard 0 it is compressed by the tongues D D against the rear part of the disk B and the standard 0 and is partly drawn into the spaces between the tongues D D and the standard 0 and passes over the ends of the tongues D D, and is thus held firmly in place. The lacing 0 when thus held resists lateral movement, which tends to press it against the standard 0 and the edges and the ends of the tongues D D.

Any other suitable method of fastening the article to the shoe or other material may be adopted. The upper surface of the disk 13 may be formed to receive a celluloid or other facing by means of the upturned rim 1), as seen in Fig. 4.

The article can be made of wire, so twisted and coiled as to form the various parts, but the flat metal is preferable. The advantage of my invention is seen in its simplicity and cheapness of manufacture. The wholearticle can be struck out of one piece of metal by a die, which at the same time rounds the edge of the disk B and inner edges of the tongues D D and forms the eyelet a or the prongs a a. It only remains, then, to bend the disk B to its proper position upon the standard 0 and the tongues D D to the proper angles to the base A.

On account of its simplicity and cheapness my invention may be used as the ordinary shoe or glove stud, thereby being also a fastener and holding the material neatly to its proper place.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

In a stud, the combination with the disk, base and standard, of two tongues, integral with the base, with the free ends next to the standard, and bent vertically and twisted laterally at angles to the base, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 28th day of November, 1896.

CHARLES HENRY PRATT. l/Vitnessesz EDWARD O. RUssEL, CHARLES W. HELMICK. 

